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- FIRESHIP
- “places don’t change, only people”
- Rod McKuen saves my life each and every day
- it took me years to understand and you just turned away
- nothing starts tomorrow, there is no greater time
- and yeah maybe you are right, leave it all behind
- you go you disappear
- but we are still here
- like a fireship
- see the people vanish, letters never read
- you found your peace, you never looked back
- going with the flow, that’s your road to ruin
- I am still here and you don’t know McKuen
- you go you disappear
- but we are still here
- like a fireship
- here we come with flaming sails
- destroy my day and haunt my night
- this life we burn unseen
- a sacrifice is not a loss
- you stay away, I stay awake
- destroy my day
- and haunt my night
- you stay away, I stay awake
- and here we come with flaming sails
- “places don’t change, only people...
- some people”
THE LONELIEST GRAVE
- “the birds in my tree are evil”
- leave the pain behind
- and all that goes with it
- cut off all the past
- and run for it
- it never was that easy
- resign to the fact
- ruin all the bridges
- and live a life intact
- we go down I go down
- I’m stepping through the door
- I quit the day and seek the night
- I will never be reborn
- bury my hate The Loneliest Grave
- bury my hate The Loneliest Grave
- left behind with pain
- and all that comes with it
- cut off all the past
- and die for it
- it’s too late now
- there is no going back
- burn all the bridges
- and leave a life intact
- bury my hate The Loneliest Grave
- bury my hate The Loneliest Grave
- we go down I go down
- I’m stepping through the door
- I quit the night and seek the light
- I do not want to be reborn
- bury my hate The Loneliest Grave
- bury my love The Loneliest Grave
DESTROY YOUR LIFE
- “somebody who belongs to my world“
- and do you look at the stars
- and dream of your past
- it was so long ago
- oh did you ever know
- destroy your life
- I’d like to think that you destroyed your life
- I am where I always was, buried inside a tomb of dreams
- and here we are on the roof of our life, preparing to fly without wings
- all the years have passed in vain and the road gets shorter everyday now
- I was waiting for something to happen but then you just flew away
- and do you look at the stars
- and dream of your past
- it was so long ago
- oh did you ever know
- destroy your life destroy your life
- destroy your life
- and do you look at the stars
- and dream of your past
- it was so long ago
- oh did you ever know
- destroy your life destroy your life
- I’d like to think that you destroyed your life
- beneath your old house I saw horses, running free with your mourning
- to foreign shores on ships of gold, that’s where we should be going
- but there are things in me that time can never heal
- and all the voices in my head: “summer is just a dream”
- and do you look at the stars
- and dream of your past
- where did you go
- and did you ever know
- destroy your life destroy your life
- destroy your life
- do you look at the stars
- and dream of your past
- where did you go
- and did you ever know
- destroy your life destroy your life
- I’d like to think that you destroyed your life
THERE IS NO DEATH AND THERE ARE NO DEAD
- “only forgetfulness”
- there is no death and there are no dead
- there is no death and there are no dead
- there is no death and there are no dead
- I can’t lose what I never had
- a fire in my spine
- salt on my skin
- where did I come from
- no one was waiting I just blew in
- a flicker on the face
- flashes in the eyes
- the sweetest memory
- the beautiful lies just like a dream
- black smoke rising
- in the waking hour
- the journey is over
- throw the flowers into the fire
- there is no death and there are no dead
- there is no death and there are no dead
- I can’t lose what I never had
- there is no death and there are no dead
- with thanks to Jimmy Cauty and the Blacksmoke Organisation
AT THE CROSSROADS
- “here we stand forever”
- we lead the lives we make and make the lives we lead
- going back I’d change a lot, but not what I’ve now got
- one day in time a season of change
- this is for life instinct and will
- hear
- listen
- they speak to me
- all things fall
- all things fall yes, Betty Corrigall
- this is for life this is for life
- hear
- listen
- they speak to me
- the taste of winter
- it is true
- it might never happen to you
- you may not see
- when’s your time
- at the crossroads
- at the crossroads
- at the crossroads
- hear
- listen
- they speak to me
- the years go quickly
NORTH ISLES MOTEL
- “and the promises that we made“
- take the ferry across the Sound
- pass green fields and narrow ways
- on the hill the old Windhouse
- we are here to contemplate
- I meet you in the North Isles Motel
- here we start life again
- I meet you in the North Isles Motel
- take a walk step out of time
- an empty beach where animals die
- so far away it feels like home
- forever bound to travel on
- I meet you in the North Isles Motel
- here we start life again
- I meet you in the North Isles Motel
- I meet you in the North Isles Motel
- I drink up in the North Isles Motel
- I touch you in the North Isles Motel
- we start again in the North Isles Motel
REPENT
- “may the past arise and change the future“
- repent
- where are you now
- I was never here
- it is not clear to see
- what you gave to me
- your magic works forever
- mine was never seen
- our journey ends in Reykjavik
- where are you now
- repent
- the lights go out in a different world
- the place where you live today
- to get away from all these dreams
- where I have chosen to stay
- what I have now is much better
- than everything you could have given
- the lights go out in a different world
- the place where you live today
- to get away from all my nightmares
- where I have chosen to stay
- what I have now is much better
- than everything you could have given
BLACK
- written by Will Oldham
SLEEP ON THE WIND
- “the longest journey“
- I go away what they sing they never do
- I go away forever going home
- I go away back to where I came from
- I fade from view just like you
- I go away to places you will never know
- I go away on ships and trains and aeroplanes
- I go away my path remains unclear
- I go away towards the lesser travelled seas
- in our life we are alone
- on our own we sleep on the wind
- I go away and leave your lives behind me
- I go away and leave you all alone
- I go away driving, driving, driving
- I fade from view just like you
- in our life we are alone
- on our own we sleep on the wind
- I go away, back to where I came from
- I fade from view just like you
- in our life we are alone
- on our own we sleep on the wind
- I go away what they sing they never do
- I go away forever going home
- I go away back to where I came from
- I fade from view just like you
- now now I see
- additional vocals by Patrick Leagas
THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
- “the greatest hate of all”
- it beckons to us all
- sometimes we cannot hide
- it beckons us inside
- open the door, a knock so pure
- in comes the seraphim
- teach me things, I already know
- filled with adrenalin
- cut him down, yet he grows back
- and makes my blood sing
- it beckons to us all
- sometimes we cannot hide
- the most unusual thing
- the once and future king
- wide open the door, a knock for sure?
- in comes the seraphim
- leave me things I don’t need
- like a life to begin
- cuts me down, cut, cut
- in comes the new king
- come in
- it beckons to us all
- sometimes we cannot hide
- the most familiar thing
- the once and future king
TO THE DISTANT GREY
- “these are the lonely things”
- I remember the dreamwind
- filling my sails then blowing me off course
- I remember the blue sky
- the follies of youth and a wish to die
- I remember things held close
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